Command center with him. They are watching the reaction here in syria. There are tensions within the white house just as there are tensions within President Trump himself. All the focus is also on russia. The secretary of state will be going there next week. Thats where this goes next. Good saturday morning to you. Good to have you with us. Im Victor Blackwell in new york. Im Brianna Keller. Troubling reports who may have been involved in a chemical attack that killed dozens of people including children. The u. S. Is investigating whether russia knew what was happening and did not do anything to try to stop it. Or potentially tried to cover it up. The kremlin is fiercely denying those accusations. The pentagon is saying its too soon to know if the russian government played a role here. Well go live to moscow in a moment. Were starting with breaking news out of sweden where a deadly attack in the Nations Capital could have been really so much worse. Swedish media reports a bag full of explosives was found in the truck that was used to run over innocent civilians yesterday but the bomb did not properly detonate. Max foster is live in stock home with the latest developments. What your learning . Reporter its interesting hearing about that explosive, weve been studying this about a pack of attacks. Nice, berlin, london where they use vehicles to drive into crowds. They didnt use explosives. They have in this situation. Very intensify intelligence gathering operation to see if they can build a picture. Let me show you the scene of the attack. Because this is the main shopping road here in stockholm. Its really tight. Its pedestrianized. When this attack happened it would have been full of shoppers, full of commuters and tourists and imagine only a few people died and were injured even as tragic as that was you look down there and you imagine could it have been so many more that actually came into that shop there on the left. Thats where they stopped this truck. You can see the destruction there. You can see how sweden is trying to cope with this and trying to make sense of it. This barrier im in front of is turning into a makeshift memorial. People coming down, laying flowers, saying a prayer, the Crown Princess was just here, very emotional, could hardly speak actually and also i had a chance to speak to the deputy Prime Minister when she came down and laid flowers too. We can never protect ourselves from this type of violence with no, lets say no limits to what the perpetrator is willing to do, with no human or normal, lets say calculations. But if youre willing to sacrifice your own life and youre willing to sacrifice others completely innocent peoples lives thats very difficult to protect yourself from. Reporter they do have somebody in custody and think its the driver of the truck. Max foster with the breaking news for us there out of stockholm. Mack, thanks so much. President trumps strike against syria may just be the first act. The United States is delivering a stark new warning for syria keeping a suspicious eye on russia this morning. Right now the pentagon is investigating if moscow was involved in the syria chemical attack. The kremlin is staunchly denying any complicity in the attack. Its the latest wrinkle in the u. S. Russian relations that Vladimir Putin thought would thaw under President Trump. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson is visiting moscow next week. A russian war ship is on the move to a Russian Naval base in syria, a military source tells russian state news the ship sarmd with cruise missiles. Its entering the same waters where u. S. Ships launched that volley of tomahawk missiles at a syrian airbase. We have our team of correspondents tracking the latest on the aftermath on the u. S. Strikes on syria. We begin with chief National Security correspondent jim sciutto. Some of the images youre about to see are graphic. Reporter u. S. Military is investigating whether russia was complicit in the Syrian Regimes gruesome chemical weapons attack on civilians earlier this week. Specifically whether a russian warplane dropped a bomb on a hospital treating victims of the attack five hours later, perhaps to destroy evidence. The probe comes after President Trump ordered a barrage of missiles on a syrian airbase in retaliation for the deadly attack. The first u. S. Military strike against the assad regime in the countrys bloody six year civil war. U. N. Ambassador nikki haley warned of possible further u. S. Military action. The United States took a very measured step last night. We are prepared to do more. But we hope that will not be necessary. Reporter the target of the strikes was syrias airbase, launched point for the syrian war planes that carried out the chemical attack. The pentagon says 59 of 60 tomahawk cruise missiles severely degraded or destroyed their targets. Including aircraft. Hardened aircraft shelters. Fuel and ammunition dumps and air defense systems. The pentagon estimates some 20 aircraft were destroyed, though video of the aftermath shows several shelters Still Standing and military aircraft undamaged. U. S. Missiles left the runway intact and avoided chemical weapons storage to prevents civilian casualties. And u. S. Commanders warn the Russian Military one hour in advance to avoid accidentally striking Russian Military personnel or assets. Still russian president Vladimir Putin, assads primary backer, diplomatally and militarily immediately declared the u. S. Air strikes quote an act of aggression. The quote dealt a serious blow to russiau. S. Relations. Syria which says nine people were killed in the strikes claim the u. S. Has undermine the fight against terrorism. Translator this condemnable u. S. Aggression confirms the continuation of the flawed u. S. Strategy and it undermines the process of combatting terrorism. It makes the u. S. A partner of the Islamic State and al nusra and other terrorist organizations. Reporter the march to military action took little more than 48 hours. The planning began tuesday, the day the world saw the first images of victims, many of them children of the chemical weapons attack. On thursday before President Trump sat down to dinner the chinese president , he met with his National Security team to discuss military options. Deciding then to order the strike that night. At 8 40 p. M. Eastern time in the middle of the night in syria the attack began. Two u. S. War ships in the Eastern Mediterranean the uss porter and uss ross launched the 60 tomahawk missiles towards the syrian airbase. Trump sat through dinner alongside the chinese as the attack was under way. 35 minutes later at approximately 9 15 p. M. Eastern time, the president s National Security team briefed him on the missions results. Our thanks to National Security correspondent jim sciutto. Lets go to athena jones. Shes outside of maralago in florida where President Trump is waking up this morning. Athena, you know, you couldnt have helped notice that Ambassador Nikki Haley said were prepared to do more. Do we know what shes signalling . Reporter thats the big question here. What will the next steps be for the u. S. Government . According to secretary of state Rex Tillerson who briefed reporters, a small group of reporter at maralago yesterday, next steps would depend how the Syrian Government responds. He said the future will be guided how we see their reaction. He said the u. S. Is monitoring the syrian response, whether they try to attack u. S. Forces or coalition forces. Whether they attack the syrians may be considering launching another chemical weapons attack. Thursdays strike were targeted to degrade syrias ability to carry out these attacks but didnt completely destroy. Military strikes avoided that area on the airbase where they believe the nerve agent was being stored. So u. S. Officials are very clear on the fact that syria still has the ability to carry out these attacks. The question is will they. If they do it seems that Ambassador Haley is hint field goal they dont carry out these chemical weapons attacks that the u. S. May have another similar response. But its important to caution here a Senior Administration official told cnn that on friday the strike shouldnt be interpreted as the beginning of a Wider Campaign to weaken or remove assad. Its really in tree lie ages specifically for those chemical weapons attacks and to send the message that that will not be tolerated. So if thats the message they are trying to send it hints if the syrians take a similar step that they could see a similar response from the u. S. Athena jones in maralago, outside of maralago i should say. Thank you very much. Lets go to paula newton live in moscow. Paula, what is the kremlin saying about the u. S. Investigation now into the possibility that russia either knew that this was going to happen or they took some steps to cover it up . Reporter victor, look we got four words. This is not true. That was from the kremlins spokesperson. This obviously is what russia said. They vehemently deny they had anything to do with it. They stayed the United States in haste went through with these air strikes before proving anything. Russia is contending it was the rebels who were responsible for that attack because they had a chemical making facility very close to that location. Having said that, though, its been breathtaking in terms of how things have changed here on the ground in russia in the last few days since that chemical attack. Were having more russian reaction when they look forward to that visit of Rex Tillerson next week. Very influential politician here is pushing back to what mr. Tillerson has been saying and he says look, tillerson, u. S. Was disappointed by the russian response. Hes saying look, was he expecting anything else . He called it a startling statement with a purpose, though. It builds leverage before the visit. And that means that look russia is going in this meeting with secretary tillerson hoping that what they heard from athena jones just now comes true in those meetings. They are willing to bet that the United States will demand much more and one thing it will demand is why does syria still have chemical weapons. Russia was supposed to be responsible for the fact that by 2014 that syria had gotten rid of all of its chemical weapons. Im sure that will be the top of the list. Let he had get to whats happening with the movement of the frigate being moved from the black sea into the mediterranean. Tell us about it. Why is it moving . Reporter so it wasnt the black sea doing maneuvers, exercises with the Turkish Naval forces, as soon as those air strikes happened it was turned around. Hit been in the mediterranean before. Its gone back there now as a show of force. This is what russia says it would strengthen the missile defenses in syria. Now everyone has noted that they did not launch any surfacetoair missiles to try to take out those tomahawks when they came into syria. This is largely symbolic as is them suspending the air safety hotline, the one to make sure there are no collisions in the air between syrian and pardon me u. S. And russian aircraft. Having said that this is a show of force thats been going on for a year and a half now. When the United States vacated that space nato called at any time largest deployment of the Russian Military in decades. They are there in the mediterranean in syria and continue to flex those military muscles and it will be something that mr. Tillerson will be reminded of when hes here next week. Well talk more about this later this hour. Paula newton in moscow for us. After the strike in syria trump critics praise the president while supports criticize him. 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What is the president s next move and what will the shift mean for the president moving forward. Joining us now we have John Mccormick a writer at the Weekly Standard and erol lewis. Erol i want to start with you. Whats the significance here . Lets start with some of the conservatives, some of the populist like nigel who was miffed by this decision. It means they like many of the president s critics now realize that what he said of not necessarily what he meant. You know, when he campaigned on a policy of staying out of these kind of entanglements in the middle east, not committing troops willynilly, calling Hillary Clinton a war monger he built a certain amount of political support. But donald trump always said that hell do what he thinks is best, he wont telegraph his intentions and that sort of usually was put in the context of ill keep my wren miss off balance. Politically there will be some kind of small price to pay. Where will ann coulter go now . Awesome she wrote. Does this rise to the level of questioning conviction here, when the president said that we will not be the policeman of the world, that i am representing the United States and not the world and then we see this shift. Does this lead some of those diehard supporters to question on what they can trust and where they can trust this president especially as it relates to foreign involvement . You know, one thing about donald trump is that his ideology has never been that fixed. Avenues liberal democrat in the late 1990s. He became a populist nationalist during this campaign. Now as were just seeing events can change his mind. Hes easily swayed. Someone said persuaded. This shows people are judging this specific incident not through partisan lines but whether they think this is right or wrong. Even Senate Democrats largely are supportive of President Trump right now. If you asked me two weeks ago is there anything Chuck Schumer would praise donald trump about i would say no way. Yesterday he called at any time right thing to do. I spoke to democrats on capitol hill. They thought this was well within the president s authority. I thought the democrats would have criticized this as another illegal republican war in the middle east. So it is really a surprising moment here. If its a one off, and the white house is suggesting that this is not leading to some larger strategy but if this is a one off for one singular act does this criticism fade . Yes i definitely think so. Again this is a complicated situation wher